Dutch court ordered LinkedIn to pay 50.000 euro for keep placing tracking cookies

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50k EUR for GDPR breach at this scale, If I was MS I would simply budget 100M a year for the fines and keep sucking all “illegal” / “unconsented” user data. :rofl:

Well apparently it is what many Big Tech do.

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Excellent! That will teach LinkedIn and their parent company Microsoft not to mess with cookies and our data! With LinkedIn revenue of $15 billion in 2023, they’ll miss that €50k for sure!

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I think this is a reasonable judgement against a single individual. The unfortunate part is the fact that LinkedIn really should be held liable for the same egregious practices against all users within the EU.

50 000 € times 50 000 000 EU users is a cool 2 500 000 000 000 € (2,5 trillion :sweat_smile:).

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While this is a nice president i dont think it would lead to this amount in clas action. But it would be good to see more of this. Not that i dont hibk it is fair, it is definitely a legitmate amount

The impact of the media coverage and legal costs should also not be under estimated with these cases.

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2,5 trillion is, of course, a completely ludicrous number, but at the same time, the obvious solution for LinkedIn would be to just follow the law, which shouldn’t be an unreasonable expectation. Even 0,1% of 2,5 trillion would represent the largest GDPR fine in history by a significant margin.

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